Washington Post- Netanyahu's Stance is Firm

Since winning reelection on March 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained consistent in his stance on the Israeli-Palestine conflict, stating that he still is unable to support an independent Palestine alongside Israel.  Before the polls opened, Netanyahu stated that he still opposed the two-party solution.  This policy has been the significance of US foreign policy for some time now, two decades to be exact.

He has however stated that he is still open to the creation of a Palestinian state, but advises that "circumstances have to change" before he takes any more steps towards it.  President Obama has stated that he sees much conflict and chaos should an agreement not be reached soon in the region.  Negotiations between the US, Israel, and Palestine do not look very likely at this point in time, and the strain between US and Israeli relations has only made the matter more complex.

The invitation from John Boehner to Netanyahu to address a joint Congress meeting in the US has still yet made the situation more difficult, as the White House knew nothing of this invitation and event until Boehner already extended the invitation.  The Israeli Prime Minister spoke against the possible relations and agreements with Iran's nuclear program, one of the President's top priorities in office.  Congress has been pretty sketchy lately in their activity....  But I digress.

President Obama stated that the two nations will continue to work together on the matter, although he declined to mention anything on Palestine's statehood endeavor and whether the United States would block the ongoing effort, a measure that the US has avoided in the past.  He has also gone on record stating that a two-state solution is the only answer to an "unsustainable" staus quo of a situation.

Geographically, the region has been contested by Israelis and Palestinians for decades and beyond.From movements of borders and populations to different places and locations to the partition of the capital city of Jerusalem, the Human Environment Interaction (HEI) in the region has been active for a while now.